Finally Good News: MSF Staff Released

by Michael Bear · 2009-03-13 22:58:00 UTC
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[Updated March 14th - MSF has now confirmed their release.  The original post from yesterday is below.]

Four Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff kidnapped in Darfur earlier this week have been released.  According to Reuters:

"MSF identified them as a Canadian nurse, an Italian doctor, a French coordinator and a Sudanese national. 'The kidnappers called us... (the hostages) were released an hour ago,' Kostas Moschochoritis, head of MSF Italy, told Reuters."

The Reuters article also shows why Sudanese Government public relations leave a little something to be desired:

"The pro-government newspaper Akhir Lahzah on Friday published an interview with a senior health official criticising MSF's decision to suspend its Darfur operations after the abduction as a 'spiteful act' of retaliation for the expulsions."

Right.

That aside, at least some good news to end the week.

[MSF staff in Darfur - Photo from Reuters]

Michael Bear
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